Born in 106 B.C., assassinated in 43; celebrated as orator,
philosopher, statesman, and man of letters; served in the
social war in 89; traveled in Greece and Asia in 79-77;
questor in Sicily in 75; accused Verres in 70; praetor in 60;
as Consul supprest Catiline's conspiracy in 63; banished in
58; recalled in 57; proconsul in Cicilia in 51-50; joined
Pompey in 49; pronounced orations against Mark Antony in
44-43; proscribed by the Second Triumvirate in 43; of his
orations fifty-seven are extant, with fragments of twenty
others; other extant works include "De Oratore," "De
Republica," "Cato Major," "De Officiis," and four
collections of letters.
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